United States Bakery
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United States Bakery is better known as Franz Family Bakeries, is located in Portland, Oregon.
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In collaboration with E. E. Franz of Franz Bakery, Mr. Yaw invented the five-inch diameter hamburger bun in the late 1920s. Though others are credited with creating a bread product to use for the first hamburgers known to the world, Franz is credited for inventing the hamburger bun in its current world-wide accepted form.[1][2]
In July of 2006 Franz baked a 104 foot 9.5 inch hot dog bun in a successful attempt to break the Guinness world record for the World's Longest Hot Dog.
Free tours of the bakery are available to the public.[3]
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| Oregon Based Companies |
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| NYSE Listed: Nike, Inc. · Precision Castparts Corp. · Portland General Electric · Tektronix · StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. |
| NASDAQ Listed: Mentor Graphics · Columbia Sportswear · Planar Systems · InFocus · Lattice Semiconductor · RadiSys · Digimarc Corporation · McCormick & Schmick's · Rentrak · FLIR Systems |
| Private Companies: Harry and David Operations Corp. · Parr Lumber · Leatherman · Reser's Fine Foods · Les Schwab · Edge Wireless · Franz Bakery · Kettle Foods · JELD-WEN · Shari's |
| Other: Bi-Mart · Evergreen International Aviation · Tillamook County Creamery Association |
